Archives Catalogue

Aerial photograph of the station building at the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1918]

Item consists of a photograph of the station located at the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken from atop that lighthouse, likely in early 1918.

Composite photograph of engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

MS-2-474, PB Box 25, Folder 23, Item 3
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a composite of three photographs depicting engine equipment inside Main Station, Sable Island, ca. 1918.

Dominion of Canada, Notice to Mariners #4 of 1919 (Atlantic No. 4)

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 10
Item
1919

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a portion of a Dominion of Canada Notice to Mariners from 1919 related to contacting the Chebucto Head; Canso; and Cape Race-Radiotelegraph Direction Finding Stations.

Oddball : [manuscript regarding Sable Island Coastal Station experience]

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 9
Item
[197-?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a short typed manuscript drafted by Richard Orme Allen, likely in the 1970s, about experiences at the Sable Island Coastal Station.

Photograph of a dory approaching Sable Island from an unidentified fishing boat

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a dory containing four people, approaching Sable Island from a distant unidentified fishing boat, likely around 1920.

Photograph of a dory departing the Erie at Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 5
Item
1912

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph taken in 1912 showing a dory rowing ashore after departing the steam schooner Erie, which was stranded on the South Side of Sable Island in August 1912.

Photograph of a large group of unidentified persons on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 19
Item
[before 1916]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of more than 20 unidentified person on Sable Island, taken before 1916.

Photograph of a person aboard a barrel raft in a moderate swell off Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 9
Item
[ca. 1920s]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of an unidentified person aboard a barrel raft off Sable Island, likely taken ca. 1920.

Photograph of a person standing in front of the Sable Island wireless station after construction of its extension

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 12
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a person wearing waterproof gear standing in front of the wireless station on Sable Island after the construction of the building's extension was completed in 1918.

Photograph of a pond located east of the Sable Island wireless station

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a pond, likely located just east of the Sable Island wireless station.

Photograph of a wireless operator and petting a dog outside the wireless station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 3
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of an unidentified Sable Island wireless operator petting a dog outside of the wireless station, 1917,

Photograph of a wireless operator at Cape Sable using equipment similar to that found on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 20
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Cape Sable wireless station, comparable in equipment to the Sable Island station.

Photograph of Baillie Stephenson and Sidney White on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 18
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of Baillie Stephenson and Sidney White on horseback behind a fence on Sable Island.

Photograph of Captain Blakeney and two unidentified people riding in a buckboard carriage on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 15
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of Captain Blakeney (and two other unidentified Blakeney family members) riding in a horse-drawn buckboard carriage on Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of David W. Rosebrugh, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of David W. Rosebrugh, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

MS-2-474, PB Box 25, Folder 23, Item 1
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of four unidentified persons standing outside of Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 16
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Frank Penney, wireless operator and Muriel Blakeney on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of wireless operator Frank Penney standing next to Sable Island resident Muriel Blakeney on a grassy area of the island.

Photograph of Frank Penney, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Frank Penney, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Fred and Joe Blakeney on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of Fred and Joe Blakeney standing in a tilled vegetable garden near Main Station on Sable Island.

Photograph of Fred or Joe Blakeney with his sister Muriel on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of either Joe or Fred Blakeney, walking on a Sable Island beach with his sister Muriel Blakeney and another unidentified person.

Photograph of Hector Corriveau, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 13
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of wireless operator Hector Corriveau standing outside of the main wireless station on Sable Island.

Photograph of Muriel Blakeney and Sidney White on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 17
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Muriel Blakeney on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 14
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of one of the stack sections for new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 16
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of seals on the north shore of Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of an aerial photograph of seals sunning themselves on the beach on the north shore of Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of Station Number 2 on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two buildings on Sable Island inside a fenced enclosure -- presumed by Richard Orme Allen to be Station Number 2 -- taken likely in 1917.

Photograph of supply ship CS Lady Laurier from the west end beach, Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Sydney Osborne standing next to a horse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 12
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of the 1905 wreck of the Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 1
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph of the wreck of the Skidby, originally taken in 1905, initially grounded 1.5 miles SE of West Light, Sable Island.

Photograph of the 1915 wreck of the Silver Wings

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 2
Item
1915

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a shipwreck off the coast of Sable Island, likely the British steam schooner Silver Wings, lost in August 1915.

Photograph of the Blakeney family on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Blakeney family on horseback on Sable Island. From left to right: Joe or Fred; Muriel; Clyde; Capt. J. U; Mrs. T; Evelyn (Mrs. Hood); Fred or Joe.

Photograph of the bow of the wrecked Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 4
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph of the bow of the grounded Skidby, taken in 1918 by Richard Orme Allen.

Photograph of the first well at the extended wireless station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 13
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the first well created at the extended Sable Island wireless station, likely taken in 1918.

Photograph of the hulk of the Skidby aground on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 3
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph, likely taken around 1917, of the hulk of the British steam schooner Skidby, which ran aground off West Light, Sable Island, in 1905.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph showing six buildings on Sable Island, making up the Main Station on the island.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two of the larger buildings in Sable Island's main station.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph showing six buildings on Sable Island, making up the Main Station on the island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two buildings, including the Sable Island Main Station, taken ca. 1917.

Photograph of the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 10
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken shortly after the completion of construction, likely in early 1918.

Photograph of the north shore of Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the beach along the north shore of Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of the old schoolhouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 14
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a building on Sable Island -- likely the old schoolhouse -- prior to its being overtaken by encroaching sand, probably taken in 1918.

Photograph of the Ritcey family at Station Number 4 near the east lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Ritcey family leaning on a fence at Station Number 4 on Sable Island, located just west of the eastern lighthouse. Mr Ritcey is absent from the photograph.